These days, I still read the London Times, I cherish every classic novel I purchase, but occasionally, just occasionally, I might be found on a tube train, reading a tabloid, totally oblivious to all the shocking headlines.
Two years later, after pouring everything I had into that second novel, I was broke, back in debt, and the book had been rejected by almost every literary agent in America.
Specifically, I presented him with a novel proposal: I asked to join the firm as a writer, not a full-time consultant.
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And it occurs to me that the novel I'd most love to write would be a 21st-century update of Achebe's final novel, "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987).
As I am able to bring more to the novel, I take more from it.
Recently I gave - I finished a draft of a novel, and I gave it to my husband to read, and about two weeks later I said to him oh, you know, it's just complete garbage.
And by the - I got to the end of the novel, and I noticed, for example, that I'd forgotten what I'd called certain characters.
Her first novel I, Coriander won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2005.
The large bulk of this book is excellent, and as a stand-alone novel I probably would have had none of the same criticisms.
This Fourth of July, I will be flying back to the United States, from England, after a three-week research trip for a novel I am about to begin writing.
In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at a fictional university.
In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at the fictional university she attends.
But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model which can be used by doctors and environmental specialists to quantify the effect of the pollutants on the lung function as measured by the peak expiratory flow rate-- which is essentially how much a person can breathe out in one breath.
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But I'm finding that a novel takes much more organization, and I'm just lost.
Of course, if your ambition is to write the Great American Novel, I wish you luck.
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The cat, Emmylou, kept me company while I wrote my first novel.
The argument that the NLRA has failed is not a novel point I am making, rather it is supported by labor academics from various perspectives.
While researching the lives of such amputees for my novel, I spoke to DeWalt Mix, who at the age of 27 was in a devastating motorcycle accident.
Someday even I could write a novel deemed "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction, " as Alfred Nobel's 1895 will read about the criteria for the prize.
But once I started reading the novel it became apparent that Fellowes was writing about much more than the provincial world of upper class Brits clinging to rapidly disappearing social importance.
For my next novel, I intend to try the second person again, perhaps because it's so seldom used, with the "you" so open to interpretation (this time it will directly address the reader).
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In this novel, I've reconfirmed my position, cultivated over many years of experience, that the artist is only one among many interpreters of his works, and not necessarily the deepest or most reliable one.
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And now I have my finished novel.
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Gustav opened a door that ultimately led me to a desk where I would spend five years on a novel, attempting to capture some of the wonder I felt upon my first encounter in Stockholm.
The long list includes former actress Kitty Aldridge for her third novel, A Trick I Learned From Dead Men, while Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers is the first novel written in verse to be recognised.
As I've learned, though, each novel has an optimal match so I'll be prepared to switch, if my choice proves incorrect.
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I've got a few really good ideas for novel-length works, but I mean I'm finding the transition from writing short stories to writing something longer just increasably(ph) difficult.
In addition, I am writing my first novel and working on two other books.
When I came across this campaign on Facebook to help US war veterans find jobs, I thought it quite the novel idea.
No, but it gave me the confidence I needed to write my novel with authority and to immerse the reader in a criminal investigation and trial.
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